WINTER CREATIVE TRAINING
#performance, #movement, #improv, #creation
And if you weren’t looking for what looks good, what’s nice? What will the audience like? How will teachers and professionals react? What will the others think about? What if you did what you personally like? If you were concerned with what you wanted to say instead of how? If you tried something completely new? If instead of avoiding, you were specifically looking for the risky, the unusual, the unknown, the weird, the uncanny? What if you didn’t throw away your "strange" ideas, but try them one by one? What if you stepped out of your comfort zone, overcame barriers, break rules? Start the year with a fresh impetus, come to our Winter Creative Training and try everything you haven’t had time or haven’t had the courage to do so far!
Structured with movement research, creative exercises, dialogues and presentations, this training is helping you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the sessions you will use different techniques and tools to generate both new works and seeds for the work you are in the midst of creating. You will create performances, solo and groups choreographies, do improvisation and realize creative movement exercises within an immersive, intensive and experimental context. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between performance tasks, creative writing and drawing exercises. You will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of your own original artwork.
During the training, activities will involve:
Performance, dance, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation; thematic movement research; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary, fiction, critics...) making exercises and creative tasks in other medium, searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
Class description:
At the beginning of each session, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises and tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches and elaborate thematic performances, create choreographies, research movement material, write texts and make images (drawings, photo, video, GIF). With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
Participation:
Our Winter Creative Training is composed of three sessions. Attendees can register independently for the 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd sessions.
The training is open for anybody (independent of age, professional or educational background).
Fee:
Free of charge
Structured with movement research, creative exercises, dialogues and presentations, this training is helping you to push yourself out of your comfort zone, transform your imagination and open yourself to new forms, aesthetics and inspirations. During the sessions you will use different techniques and tools to generate both new works and seeds for the work you are in the midst of creating. You will create performances, solo and groups choreographies, do improvisation and realize creative movement exercises within an immersive, intensive and experimental context. So as to stimulate different parts of the brain and the body, you will move back and forth between performance tasks, creative writing and drawing exercises. You will also receive one-on-one mentoring (including critical feed-back in the analysis, application of the method and the clarity of details) during the development of your own original artwork.
During the training, activities will involve:
Performance, dance, narrating and composing through structured-improvisation; thematic movement research; developing scores for solo and group choreographies; discussions, screenings and readings from texts by writers, theorists, artists; creative writing in different form (poetry, manifest, comics, diary, fiction, critics...) making exercises and creative tasks in other medium, searching through storytelling, personal narratives, historical material, archives and divers audiovisual resources.
Class description:
At the beginning of each session, through joint analysis of historic and contemporary examples, participants will approach different discourses connected to the topic. Building on these discussions as well as on selected readings, creative exercises and tasks, participants will be guided to explore various approaches and elaborate thematic performances, create choreographies, research movement material, write texts and make images (drawings, photo, video, GIF). With embracing multiple media, participants will be invited to challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, propose new forms, aesthetics, alternative, experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes, express criticism of structural and ideological concerns.
Participation:
Our Winter Creative Training is composed of three sessions. Attendees can register independently for the 1st, 2nd and/or 3rd sessions.
The training is open for anybody (independent of age, professional or educational background).
Fee:
Free of charge
1. “THE BAD TASTE”Dates: 16-17 Jan, 10:00-13:00
Venue: Zeroplus Dance Studio Description: During this session, from a theoretical and practice-oriented perspective, we will investigate the ideological, political and historical parameters of “taste” in popular culture, explore what is meant by designations such as canonical “high culture” and popular “low culture”, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. At the intersection of a cabaret and a tv show, through creating performances with highly charged imagery juggling, among others, the aesthetics of comics, advertisements, popular music, and video games, we explore how bad, vulgar, kitsch or valueless aesthetic can be used as an oppositional aesthetic challenging hegemonic class, gender, and racial hierarchies, normative behaviors and ideologies. |
2. “THE SACRED RITUAL”Dates: 18-29 Jan, 13:30-16:00
Venue: Zeroplus Dance Studio Description: We focus on contemporary performing art practices linked to ceremonies, shamanic rites, spiritual beliefs, healing, the life cycle, political power, social cohesion, and personal identity. We explore how rituals embody and activate myths through dramatic and choreographic transformative devices, and how contemporary artists appropriate and traverse traditional boundaries between performance art, ancient rites, shamanic action, transcendental experiences, and myths. We expand the range and breadth of the understanding of ritual, transcendence and immanence of the sacred, experience group creativity and feel the power of collective action. |
3. “CHOREOGRAPHIC POETRY: PERFORMING TEXTS & WORDS”Dates: 25-29 Jan, 13:30-16:00
Venue: Zeroplus Dance Studio Description: We will investigate the use of dialogue, texts, words to influence and enhance performance, whether it is dance, physical theatre or visual art. We trace the history of choreographers, photographers, painters, performance makers using narrative texts, speech, prose, drama, poetry, or introducing abstract words, voice into their works. We challenge the connection between language and body, text and movement. In the form of solo and group performances, we will experiment the use of text, song and voice, and observe what it brings to the performance, how it modifies the relationship with the public, and how it influences the piece. |
FACILITATOR
Anna graduated in 2016 from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (FR), and is now a visual artist and performance maker. Her work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image and object, with the body and movement as central elements of expression. By combining performing arts, visual arts, education and curatorial practices, Anna’s work transgresses normative discourses, challenges gender boundaries, systems of representation and beauty standards. Through embracing marginal forms (eg. embroidery, ballroom dance, nightclub dance…) and rejected aesthetics by the western art history and market (eg. “vulgar”, decorative, figurative, narrative...), she challenges artistic conventions and traditional canons, proposes alternative and experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes and express criticism of structural and ideological concerns. Anna also considers education and community building activities as part of her main artistic medium. At the intersection of a workshop and an interactive performance, she creates and curates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political spaces for moving, experimental contexts for producing knowledges and tools, sharing learning and unlearning processes, developing new forms of relational aesthetics based on inclusion, connection, co-creation and solidarity.
Since 2016 Anna has presented her work in major cities and small towns alike, in formal and informal, indoor and outdoor spaces (E-Werk Kulzurzentrum (DE), Théâtre National de Syldavie (FR), Piccolo Teatro (DE), Modern Art Museum (AM), Musée National de l'histoire de l'immigration (FR) etc.). During 2020 she has been a resident artist at the University of Artois (FR), Mediterranean Dance Center (HT) and ZFinMalta (MT). In 2021 she will collaborate with Dance City Theater (UK), A4 (SK) and the Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR). Anna has also a significant teaching experience in interdisciplinary art education, combining performance and visual art practices (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Conservatory of Dance and Choreography (AM), University of Artois (FR), University of Novi Sad (SRB), ZfinMalta National Dance Company (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HT), Dance City Theater Newcastle (GB)...). In 2021 she will start her "School of Disobedience", which will be an experimental and transdisciplinary art school and fight club based on questioning, criticizing, unlearning, protesting, resisting and defying.
www.annaadam.net
www.instagram.com/AnnaAdamStudio
ORGNAIZATION
The "Winter Creative Training" is co-organized between ZeroPlus DanceWorks and Gray Box, and is the first event of the ZeroPlus Dance Education's Performing Arts Research Program.
SUPPORTERS
Supporters of ZeroPlus DanceWorks: Summa Artium Private Cultural Fund, Ministry of Human Capacities Hungary, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, , L1 Association, Workshop Foundation
Supporters of the Gray Box Company: Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR), Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dance City Theater Newcastle (GB), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR)
Anna graduated in 2016 from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy (FR), and is now a visual artist and performance maker. Her work blurs the boundaries between choreography, image and object, with the body and movement as central elements of expression. By combining performing arts, visual arts, education and curatorial practices, Anna’s work transgresses normative discourses, challenges gender boundaries, systems of representation and beauty standards. Through embracing marginal forms (eg. embroidery, ballroom dance, nightclub dance…) and rejected aesthetics by the western art history and market (eg. “vulgar”, decorative, figurative, narrative...), she challenges artistic conventions and traditional canons, proposes alternative and experimental solutions in order to defy norms, undermine tropes and express criticism of structural and ideological concerns. Anna also considers education and community building activities as part of her main artistic medium. At the intersection of a workshop and an interactive performance, she creates and curates non-judgmental and non-hierarchical political spaces for moving, experimental contexts for producing knowledges and tools, sharing learning and unlearning processes, developing new forms of relational aesthetics based on inclusion, connection, co-creation and solidarity.
Since 2016 Anna has presented her work in major cities and small towns alike, in formal and informal, indoor and outdoor spaces (E-Werk Kulzurzentrum (DE), Théâtre National de Syldavie (FR), Piccolo Teatro (DE), Modern Art Museum (AM), Musée National de l'histoire de l'immigration (FR) etc.). During 2020 she has been a resident artist at the University of Artois (FR), Mediterranean Dance Center (HT) and ZFinMalta (MT). In 2021 she will collaborate with Dance City Theater (UK), A4 (SK) and the Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR). Anna has also a significant teaching experience in interdisciplinary art education, combining performance and visual art practices (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Conservatory of Dance and Choreography (AM), University of Artois (FR), University of Novi Sad (SRB), ZfinMalta National Dance Company (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HT), Dance City Theater Newcastle (GB)...). In 2021 she will start her "School of Disobedience", which will be an experimental and transdisciplinary art school and fight club based on questioning, criticizing, unlearning, protesting, resisting and defying.
www.annaadam.net
www.instagram.com/AnnaAdamStudio
ORGNAIZATION
The "Winter Creative Training" is co-organized between ZeroPlus DanceWorks and Gray Box, and is the first event of the ZeroPlus Dance Education's Performing Arts Research Program.
SUPPORTERS
Supporters of ZeroPlus DanceWorks: Summa Artium Private Cultural Fund, Ministry of Human Capacities Hungary, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, , L1 Association, Workshop Foundation
Supporters of the Gray Box Company: Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Hauts-de-France (DRAC Hauts-de-France, FR), Université d’Artois (FR), Abbaye de Maubuisson (FR), Dance City Theater Newcastle (GB), ZFinMalta (MT), Mediterranean Dance Center (HR)
